The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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